American Music Series                                                                              88a

Charles Mingus

with W. A. Brower

Unknown Location

Unknown Date

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side a                                                                                                             pp.1-24

latest album, promoting young musicians through his name; lack of support for jazz musicians; blues and Gospel as sources in his music; influence of the South and its culture on jazz; programmatic versus abstract/mystical music; latest pianist in his band; social background affects content of music; difference in attitudes between black and white jazz musicians; Duke Ellington; music as a vehicle to preserving and promoting folk traditions; role of church; joins Communist Party; Watts riots and Rap Brown; religion--Fats as an atheist; black Mafia of the lower east side of Manhattan; Crazy Joe; contact and contracts with the Italian Mafia; Stan Getz; Italian friends arrange a meeting with top man in Mafia to discuss a booking agency run by blacks; Louis Armstrong.